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Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia took the title in the 117th edition of the Boston Marathon yesterday,
winning a three-way sprint down Boylston Street to finish in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 22 seconds.

About four hours into the race and two hours after Desisa finished, two bombs exploded in the
packed streets near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring more than
140.

By that point, more than 17,000 of the 23,326 competitors had finished the race.

In just his second race at the 26.2-mile distance, Desisa finished five seconds ahead of Kenya’s
Micah Kogo to earn $150,000 and the traditional olive wreath. Gebregziabher Gebremariam of Ethiopia
was another second behind in third place, with American Jason Hartmann matching his 2012 finish by
coming in fourth.

Rita Jeptoo won the women’s race for her second Boston victory. Jeptoo, who also won in 2006,
finished in 2:26:25 for her first victory in a major race since taking two years off after having a
baby.

Desisa is the fourth Ethiopian to win the men’s race and the 24th East African to win in the
past 26 years. Jeptoo is the third straight Kenyan woman to win. Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach, who won in
1985, is the last American champion; 1983 winner Greg Meyer was the last American man to break the
tape. Chris Estwanik, a 1998 Dublin Coffman graduate now residing in Pembroke, Bermuda, finished
21st in a career-best time of 2:19.55. In setting a 41-year-old Bermuda record, Estwanik, 33, met
the 2016 Olympic qualifying standard in only his second marathon. His wife, Ashley, 35, was 78th in
the women’s race in 2:55.56.